If I had a choice I would choose a coconut over a basketball any day, Nancy!
Hope your year is starting off with lots of fun adventures! You always made me smile but somehow I had to start from scratch to find you this year. . . I missed your happy jokes and “ah, that’s better!”

If you’d kept the coconut, you might have used it for dessert. In the photo, you’re holding it like a football, not a soccer ball.

I’ve never seen the movie “Castaway’. It looks like an updated version of “Robinson Crusoe”. I remember seeing the movie “Robinson Crusoe”, when I was a child, back in 1954. That movie’s title character was portrayed by Dan O’Herlihy. From what I can see in your posted trailer; “Castaway” looks very much the same.

Instead of a soccer ball, Robinson Crusoe had his Man Friday; an actual human being, with who he had real conversations, instead of fantasy ones. Friday was a Black Man, who Mr. Crusoe treated as a slave. That was the way things were, during the Age when the story was written. It could be that the movie “Castaway”‘s production company wanted to avoid any problems, by replacing Man Friday with a politically correct soccer ball. (Have you heard of any organization accusing them of insensitivity to soccer balls?)

Another question. What do you use to crack open a coconut? A hammer? Then digging out the meat, and grinding it down into edible flakes can’t be all that easy either.

I’ve never had to remove the outer husk before ~ on TV, it’s usually removed with a machete.

When you buy a coconut in the store, there are 3 “eyes” at one end. To access the liquid and coconut meat, you can puncture those (I used a hammer and nail), then drain out the liquid, then wrap the nut in newspaper (to keep debris from flying about), and then WHACK it with a hammer until it breaks apart.